The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, and the island councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez, denied yesterday that the Tenerife Environmental Complex, located in the municipality of Arico, is going to carry out burning of waste as denounced by the CC-PNC, training that has even requested an extraordinary plenary session to address this point, and which takes place today in the Cabildo. Pedro Martín recalled that the Island Corporation has made an investment of more than 10 million euros in this space for the treatment of containers and organic waste, and that when the tender for the AG2 plot in the Arico Environmental Complex was announced, to favor recycling and reduce the amount of waste that is buried on the Island, opposition voices have emerged with “fake news”, “hoaxes” and “attacks without technical solvency” that seek to “confuse the population” and that are not going accompanied by documents that prove what they say.
Faced with this lack of documentation that Pedro Martín denounced, the insular president advanced that there are two technical reports that guarantee that in this tender “there is not, nor will there ever be space for waste incineration” because it is expressly excluded.
One of these reports is signed by seven technicians from the Sustainable Development area and the other is prepared by the University of La Laguna (ULL). In both, assured the insular president, it is also endorsed that the Governing Council is competent to carry out the tender, that this procedure complies with the European, national and regional standards, that recycling is prioritized, and that it is an adequate way to stop burying waste.
For his part, the island councilor for Sustainable Development, Javier Rodríguez, assured that the accusations made by the Canarian Coalition are “false, simple, simplistic and without technical or legal basis” and that the only thing sought is to change the model with which is operating, which is from the year 85 to “improve waste treatment and generate quality jobs.”
Rodríguez added that the bidding for the AG2 plot complies with the guidelines of the Insular Plan for Territory Management (PIOT) and the Special Territorial Plan for Waste Management (PTEOR).
The president pointed out that “this bidding process has not yet been completed”, and added that “to date we only have a single proposal”. “For now, there has been no award yet, and that proposal only includes waste recycling,” he said. The only bidder for the moment is the Temporary Union of Arico Green Glass Companies.
